Family Viewing

Canada

1987

86 Min

Color

1.33:1

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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DP Robert MacDonald, Peter Mettler

CAST David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, Selma Keklikian, Jeanne Sabourin, Rose Sarkisyan

ED Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald

SOUND Steve Munro, Ross Redfern

Toronto: Best Canadian Feature Film, Locarno: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Jury Prize, Berlinale (Forum): Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention

Director

Atom Egoyan’s parents were painters and he studied International Relations and music at the University of Toronto where he began making short films: “Howard in Particular” 1979, “After Grad with Dad” 1980, “Peep Show” 1981 and “Open House” 1982.

While he has several distinguished Television and Opera works on his resume and such pictures as his debut “Next of Kin” 1984, Berlin and Moscow International Film Festival-winning “Family Viewing” 1987 and “The Adjuster” 1991 – his most critically acclaimed creation is The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and his most famous work is the astonishingly clever film-in-film Ararat (2002)

4 time Cannes Film Festival winner and the most famous Armenian filmmaker since Sergei Parajanov, the Egypt-born, Canada-bred, Oscar-nominated master of indie cinema, has collected an impressive 4 awards from the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.

A 7 time recipient of Canada’s top Genie Awards, he is a remarkable figure in contemporary… read more

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Gran-Hoff

12Jan12

The questions raised in relation to the influence of television made a very interesting beginning of film, but the increasing attention to the relation son/grandmother/mysterious women makes the second half of it a little weaker in my opinion...it deviates way too much towards the problems of the young man and his lost mother - which can maybe relate to the lost roots of image, but still sounded a little off to me..